2. Ralph Go : 17:22

Neural networks. Theory of computation. We have a lot of things. What
specific area of computer science are you interested in?

Telematics. This is a demonstration CD - a presentation - of a
software that fully automates an injection moulding or a blow moulding
line. From accounting and inventory to assembly line. It's automated
by allowing your computer aided machineries with interfaces connected
by wire to a central control panel which is connected to a server
connected in turn to other computers. So that's a network, as you're
probably familiar with. It's not a new product, but it's not that old
either. Aufenbach Consulting. He's asked me to find a market for it,
and I'm supposed to visit all the injection moulding and blow
moulding. Now the problem is that most here are guerrilla
manufacturing. Bye bye BIR. Thermomur indirect use of IT. Creates
styrofoam hollow blocks that are not structurally sound by themselves
but if you put them toegher in a design determined by the computer,
and fill it with cement... This one I heard Federal Land has, but
they're keeping it secret. They don't want anyone to know. Competition
here, the mentality is everything's a secret, but that's more Chinese
than anything else. I worked for several Chinese companies, but never
mind.

Do you remember also that several companies produced illegal copies of
CDs. That's IT - applied mechatronics.

Clientele ask all sorts of questions, so I have to be prepared with
most of the questions. We have a chief engineer in Finland and an IT
engineer.

We're talking about the application of systems integration, primarily.
I'm assuming you know the basics of networking and computer networks.
Yes? Traditional computer science as it's called concentrates on
Pascal, programming, languages, very little engineering. They only
recently introduced ECE, which is more applicable. Pretty soon you'll
see how wired and wireless technologies, linked together...

There is a presentation I can give, but then I have to give letters,
because I am bound by certain NDAs.

Martin: What do you hope to achieve from this meeting?

I was surprised when I talked to that lady because I was not a
computer science student per se. But I'm doing marketing, essentially,
and I would like to find out what it is that people are being taught
here in higher-level institutions in terms of systems?

(Please ask them to turn the speaker off.)

To give you an understanding of what's going on in the republic of the
Philippines using just one company...

Objectives: - give you a better awareness in terms of service
integration results. what's going on in the real world and what you
normally find out there in the professional world in terms of where IT
can be applied. So you have a better idea of business opportunities.
Reason for this: little bit of research at the universities to find
out how the programs have changed.

Basic: how to upgrade computers. We make systems. You can do that too.

Julius, Cha, Martin, Migs

There's stuff that's out that can blow your mind. Biochip. Biometrics.
Further applications. One of the applications of IT is construction.
Show you a few films about how IT can be applied to everything. (Note:
We already know that.) Elucidation of the SARS virus. One of the most widespread uses - desktop publishing. Multimedia files which are accessed by a core of programs by certain companies - Lotus and Microsoft. Incidentally, I hope you realize that the original Lotus team included Bill Gates. The same group of people who created the IT revolution we know today created Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Netscape, ... If you have any questions, just raise your hand.

Point of the presentation - what I give to my clients. I need to find
out if these presentations are suitable for what you're planning for
the university. Has anyone ever heard of Powerpoint poison? It's a
Dilbert term. It shows you how much IT has gone into our world. You
use so many Powerpoint presentations that you bore your audience to
death. It's an issue now, although before it was cutting-edge. IT can
work for you, but it can also be overdone. Speakers bureaus as well as
other organizations that deal with speaking and speechcraft that help
you with these modernday rpesentations. This is literally where IT can
interface with everything. Along with information technology comes IT
responsibility. You can make a virus that can damage any system or
subsystem within a wired or wireless network. There was a film that
spoke about IT and its hazards. I forgot the title, but it had to deal
with an MIT graduate in computer science. Why was he recruited? He was
good at computing. Later on you find out there was a program that was
meant to incapacitate any information based system. In case you're
wondering what I'm talking about, three most common words: I love you.
One of the most famous viruses around. Had to round up Filipino CS and
"hackers" to find out who wrote it.

Let's go on to this. Reason why I'm giving this series of talks is
that I've been asked by the Toastmasters to do a lecture series.
Joined because they do a very good job of helping people improve their
communication skills. They have been incorporating almost the latest
technologies. Everything is now interconnected. The barriers are down
because of telecommunications. Ten to twelve most basic inventions
that have changed our lives. Machine runs you or you run the machine?

We would like to keepthem informed about the latest advancements. Not
always possible because a lot of confidential work is done, and it is
covered by NDAs.

Overview of IT uses in industry not sufficient - can pick that up from
Discovery Channel. Would be nice to see how we can use skills picked
up through an Atenean CS/MIS education to do this sort of thing, maybe
an overview of the different areas and the skills needed....

Why am I showing you these AVIs? Normally Powerpoint presentations,
but we're trying multimedia. DVD has more storage.

"telematics - next stage of information technology". Personally, I
don't like that kind of tight control. I live in a Free World.

3. Moved in : 18:57

Moved into the small boarding house on Esteban Abada Street today. I
covered my bed, organized my closet, and sorted out my clothes into
teacher-y and non-teacher-y outfits. I have three outfits that I can
wear to school. I do not think I'll ever get away with those corduroy
shorts - they're higher than mid-thigh! Mrrf.

Had dinner at Cafe Maison.

It's soooo warm. I changed into my nightclothes already. It's a good
thing I packed a spare, as the ones they had sent were even worse! In
fact, I feel strongly tempted to go to sleep and just wake up early
tomorrow, but it's 7:00 and that may sort of be pushing it. If I slept
now, I could get up at 4 after nine full hours of sleep!

Played chess with Stanley. I tried the 1. e4 d5 2. exd5 c6 gambit,
and that went pretty okay, but my middle game was rather shaky. End
game saw us with only kings and pawns - Stan had a two-pawn advantage,
including one on a clear file. We raced white f, black h pawn to
queen. I queened first, he queened right after, but I had the
initiative so I kept checking him to force an exchange. I had the
positional advantage - the queen exchange took him away from the
cluster of pawns from a to f - but I blundered (stupid zugzwang!).
Managed to recover and engaged in another exciting race to queen. I
was a move behind him. He queened his last pawn. My pawn moved to a2.
His king was too far away to help his queen checkmate me, and his
queen couldn't force my king away from the pawn on its own. (I heavily
abused the fact that stalemate would've been a draw! =) ) He
offered me a draw, which was the best I could do given the
circumstances.

Chess - what an adrenalin-charged game!

To do:

- Get a stand fan taller than my bed. (Too bad I can't just ask for the bed to be replaced by a futon...)
- Get a desk lamp.
- Get slippers.
- Get a pillow.
- Get teacher-y clothes.
- Wipe the floors so that it's not so dusty.

4. Application essay : 19:04

- reasons for pursuing graduate studies at this time
- reasons for choosing your program of study
- personal qualities, abilities or special skills which you feel will help you do well in your chosen program of study
- constraints or difficulties that you anticipate to encounter while taking graduate studies
- potential contribution of an ateneo graduate education to your profession and larger society.

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